new “discovery”: unused palla portrait in episode 2!
(don’t put any stock in the stats or inventory, this is just hardin with his portrait and name bytes set to display palla)
i can’t claim actual credit for discovering this at all. what happened is, we were discussing portrait decompression and that led bm to start talking about the work of the japanese “binary” hacking collective (of febinary fame). he started posting various portrait odds and ends he’d obtained from what we assume is their upload box, including a full set of bsfe portraits that happened to include this palla portrait. at first i just assumed the palla one was one of the binary people doing a solid job of emulating the bsfe portrait style, but since it was the only one of its theoretical replica kind, i started to wonder. i checked with the game and boom, there she was
as you probably know by now, palla isn’t playable in any bsfe episode but does figure pretty heavily in episode 2’s cutscenes. perhaps they planned to have her show up in the game itself at some point. i wonder if there’s any unique surviving stats to go with the portrait? i don’t have the knowledge to find out
change the byte at 7F4446 to 2F to have hardin display the portrait (or 7F4466 for minerva, 7F4486 for catria… you get the idea). it’s only in episode 2 because, like all other bsfe portraits, it was scrubbed out of the later episodes’ data
while i’m here, there’s one more unused portrait in episode 2:
i wasn’t sure about this one back when i was posting about the battle preparations menu, but it looks like this villager is definitely unused. conveniently, jugding by the binary resources, this screen displays her correct palette. considering how broken the other three episodes’ save prompt portraits are, it’s nice that this one worked out. i’m too stupid to figure out how to call this portrait in any context other than this screen, so i guess just trick episode 2 into booting into battle preparations if you want to see this one?
disregard all of that, i have made a stupid mistake, she actually is definitely used:
it just never occurred to me that maybe this episode has a seize point. sorry! ignore me, i’m super dumb
i don’t think there’s any other unused portraits in any episode, so there it is i guess